Entrance, The Law Courts designed by George Edmund Street (1824-1881). 1868-1882

Compare this picture of entrance to the restored Street's Law Courts to that of the
soot-covered one taken in Summer 1967. For a few years at least, Street's contemporaries had experienced his bright-stone structure, but within a few years London's heavy pollution darkened the original light colors. What effect do you expect that the polluted surfaces of such Neo-gothic structures had upon the way they were considered in the early years of modernism?

Photograph 1999 George P. Landow may be used without written permission for any educational or scholarly purpose